Hypothetical models of extremes gain freakishness
to them when they actually play themselves out in nature.
In October 1991, an event meteorologists still refer to as The Perfect
Storm entered the Gulf of Maine.
A low-pressure system hovering over Nova Scotia, an energy system coming
from the Great Lakes, and a dying Hurricane near
Bermuda called Grace, formed together to create an enormous storm called
the Halloween Storm that eventually developed into another
Hurricane. Of particular interest to me are the unusual paths these storms
took, before and after they joined energies.